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Here you have another BOTT XR1, this one has been built by Eric Villot, from France. He was one of our first customers. Eric didn’t buy the complete kit, because he wanted to design and fabricate himself some of the parts in order to build a XR1 fully customized to his taste. As you can see in the photos, the result is really nice. The bike has many interesting details, like the fan to cool the rear cylinder, t

Paradise Moto distributes in France several very special motorcycle brands like Bimota, Borile, Brough Superior, CR&S, MV Agusta, NCR, Norton, Vyrus.. and Bottpower. In the photos you can see the XR1 that is displayed in one of their shops in Paris, in the street Av de la Grande Armée, very close to the Arc de Triumph. This unit has some cool details like the carbon fiber tank painted in white and also other com

Besides selling kits, currently we are focusing more on selling complete bikes. The main advantage is that in this way we have more control of the quality and the aesthetics of our bikes. Although it is also true that lately we have seen some really cool XR1s that our customers are building out there. I think we will have some photos to show very soon. In the next photo you can see some of the bikes we are working on

This year Santa has been great with us. We received the model for the cafe racer seat/tail, based on the version 2 design. With this model now it is possible to fabricate the molds, and with the molds it will be possible to fabricate parts both in fiberglass and carbon fiber. This model comes from the cafe racer version two design. We also received some titanium material for building a couple of frames. One is for th

In our last post about the cafe racer project we mentioned that we would work on improving the engine a little bit. We just received some parts from Hammer Performance. A big bore (1250 cc) kit together with new special ported heads. The parts look really nice. We want to increase performance a little bit without reducing reliability. We think that these parts together with our special electronics will make a good mi

Last weekend I was in Valencia track working with the Qatar Federation team in the last round of the CEV (Spanish Championship). We were in box 39 and I found that in the box next to us (box 38) we had a couple of interesting neighbors. Two Moto2 bikes with alternative front ends were sharing the box. One was the French Transfiormers, which has already raced several times in some races of World Championship, and also

The cafe racer version 3 that we published recently, had a special fork, classic wire wheels and Brembo brakes. We received some comments, through Facebook and other websites, that were wondering how the bike would look with the original Buell rims, brakes and fork. Here you have some new renders showing it. I used these renders also to correct a mistake that I made in the previous ones, which was to keep the oil rad

Last weekend I was in the 24 hours of Le Mans, working with the QMMF team. This was the third and last race of the 2014 World Endurance Championship. The race was really good for us, we won the SuperStock category and finished 4th in the general classification of the race. With this race we finished the season in second position in the Superstock Championship. The riders (Anthony West, Alex Cudlin and Mashel Al Naimi

Here you have some “work in progress” pictures of our cafe racer. The clutch cable is hanging, it has no front brake discs, the rear brake master cylinder is not in place, etc, etc. This is just how the bike was today in our workshop.. still very far from finished. This first unit will have many special parts, and many things will be different once the bike is finished. This bike will be very close to the